I’m on a quixotic quest to look at all the Shirley Erena Murray texts in Alleluia Aotearoa. She writes texts that suit metrical tunes so often they can be set to old hymns in addition to their newer settings.
This is a hymn of praise suitable for gathering and communion. The text is at Hope Publications where it is set to STRENGTH AND STAY by John B. Dykes. To give myself a break from guessing chords I have decided to use the wonderful Small Church Music site for their public domain files. I got the BIAB file here and took his first verse and looped it and rearranged it for my backing:
In AA they set it to INFINITE by Douglas Mews. That one I had to figure out chords for a backing myself.
They also suggested the tune HIGHWOOD by R. R. Terry, which is at Small Church Music as well, so I rearranged his BIAB file as well.